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Peter Enns
Peter K. Enns, the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and professor of government
Government

Cornell-led election survey seeks to improve science of polls

Cornell Chronicle

The survey boasts a sample size 20 times larger than most nationally representative surveys.

Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
Astronomy

A dream of discovering alien life finds new hope

Quanta

For Lisa Kaltenegger and her generation of exoplanet astronomers, decades of planning have set the stage for an epochal detection.

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Cornell University file photo Just a few hours after the final votes are cast and long before they all are counted, professors Peter Enns, Steve Israel and Suzanne Mettler (l-r) will offer analysis of the 2022 midterm elections at an in-person event at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Election 2022

Experts will offer day-after election analysis

Cornell Chronicle

The in-person event The Day After: What Happened on Election Night and What Happens Next will be held November 9 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Room 155.

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Academic opportunities

Students can now choose new minor in data science

A&S Communications

… Cognitive Science Program … Science and Technology Studies … from throughout the university can now minor in data science , a field that faculty say has become increasingly … Students can now choose new minor in data science …

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Student research experiences

Nexus Scholar applications open for summer 2023

A&S Communications

The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.

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Election 2022

Fear of election violence highlights how political landscape has changed

A&S Communications

Concerns about violence are growing as Election Day in the U.S. nears, says scholar Mabel Berezin: “The expectation of violence at the polls this year signals how much has changed in the American electoral landscape since 2018."

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Chris Kitchen Margaret Keymakh in the Crickard lab.
Undergraduate research

Undergrad publishes research on genetic information exchange

A&S Communications

A study by Margaret Keymakh '23 and others in her lab was just published in PLOS Genetics.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Cornell Votes members Dana Karami ’23, center, vice president of operations; Patrick Mehler ’23, founding member and president; and Lauren Sherman ’24, incoming vice president of external operations, gather in Willard Straight Hall.
Elections

Students get out the vote, on campus and across the state

Cornell Chronicle

“The youth have so much power, and we just don’t use it,” said Lauren Sherman ’24, Arts and Sciences student.

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Mohammad Arifuzzaman and David Artis/Provided Color-enhanced goblet cells (dark purple) in lung epithelium.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Common dietary fiber promotes allergy-like immune responses

Cornell Chronicle

Inulin, a type of dietary fiber commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type of inflammation in the lung and gut, and other parts of the body, according to a preclinical study from Cornell researchers.

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Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Benjamin Netanyahu, January 2018
International politics

‘Fearmongering’ drives Netanyahu’s comeback in Israel

A&S Communications

Government scholar Uriel Abulof comments that in Israel, Netanyahu’s comeback appears powered by politician Itamar Ben-Gvir and the far-right.
 

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Pascal Bernardon/ Unsplash Harvard University
American studies

History offers the best argument for continuing affirmative action

Washington Post

Affirmative action still has a vital role to play for addressing the history of discrimination: perspective by Glenn Altschuler

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Alejandro Luengo/Unsplash Chinese flag
China

People over numbers: Book charts China’s neopolitical turn

Cornell Chronicle

Jeremy Lee Wallace explains how a few numbers came to define Chinese politics “until they did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up,” and the “stunning about-face” led by Xi Jinping within the Chinese Communist Party.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University The 11 Cornell students who will be helping delegations at COP27 in Egypt.
Climate

Cornell students to work at UN’s COP27 conference in Egypt

Cornell Chronicle

Eleven Cornell students, including two from Arts & Sciences, will help delegations from specialized agencies and small countries gain a stronger voice at the United Nations’ COP27 conference.

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Economics

Parking ticket reminders work, but not for all

Cornell Chronicle

New research by Cornell behavioral economists reveals that people who would benefit the most from gentle “nudges” to pay their fines – those who are least responsive to tickets in the first place – respond least to those reminders.

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Dave Burbank Kenneth Roberts
Government

Polarization research in Ecuador underscores risks to U.S. democracy

Cornell Chronicle

When political parties stoke partisan conflicts – often by contesting formal state institutions, like systems for managing elections – actual democratic capacity may take a hit as public opinion polarizes.